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It is very possible that they are corrupt, not necessarily by a virus, it could be a HD failure, a filesystem one, as well as they could have been partially overwritten or "cross-linked", or it could even be a "glitch" in the recovery program. By the same principle, the drive can be unbootable for a number of causes, it's impossible to say that it does not boot because of a virus, unlesss you find evidence of it. There are tools to try and recover corrupted .jpg files, at least partially, but it's impossible to say if any of them would work on those files. Here are a few of them: http://www.officerecovery.com/pixrecovery/ http://www.clarity.net/~adam/recoverpix.html http://www.hketech.com/JPEG-recovery/index.php http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/Digital...y-Software.html but there are many more. jaclaz

Actually, it should be "BRASSO": http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=56005 jaclaz

Yes, that's exactly the idea behind the script, i.e. setting ACL permissions, the problem is that the path is "hardcoded" into 'C:\Windows\inf\usbstor.inf', so that it won't work if you have a different %windir%/%SystemRoot%. The only thing that should prevent installing the USB device should be if the device is not standard, i.e. it does not comply with either the eplicit vid&pid or the general Class&Subclass declared in usbstor.inf. Also check permissions on the tree above USBSTOR.INF, maybe something needs to be changed there, as said I am not an expert on this, but maybe some Ownership and Inheritance settings do override the file ones. A test you could make, if you can make a test install, is to setup XP on a FAT32 partition.... Another idea (again of which I have NO experience) could be using NTRIGHTS: http://www.ss64.com/nt/ntrights.html with the "SeLoadDriverPrivilege" jaclaz

You are right, my bad. My apologies to the good FreeBSD guys. I was actually thinking about Openfiler: http://www.openfiler.com/about/ but forgot to add the above link and the reference to FreeBSD to the FreeNAS link. jaclaz

Did you try with the suggestion at the bottom of the page? jaclaz

I guess that you need something like these: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=18480&st=0 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=86662 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=84411 I may add that mbldr, that used to be Commercial as OS-BShas been released as Open Source http://sourceforge.net/projects/mbldr and is currently a rather active project, maybe it is what you need. jaclaz

Don't want to put you down or anything like that, but why do you want to use XP for a NAS? There are specific apps (Linux based) that already work very well, like NASlite: http://www.serverelements.com/ or FreeNAS: http://www.freenas.org/ However, the usual reference for booting XP off a CF card are SFiorito's page and posts, here and on MP3CAR: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=70 http://osf1.gmu.edu/~sfiorito/eXPinstall.htm About what exactly to remove with nlite, you will need to make some experiments, it also depends on how big in size is the CF card, the rule of thumb can be one of these two approaches: 1) unless you have tight space requirements, remove just enough so that install fits on the media, use common sense, do not overdo it. 2) remove everything, and if something is not working, rebuild with the missing/malfunctioning component added Quite naturally, method 1) is easier and faster, while method 2) takes more time but gives the smallest possible footprint as final result. jaclaz

Well, not much fantasy in the title: CDCHECK http://www.kvipu.com/CDCheck/ recent versions requires at least a FREE registration for non-commercial use, maybe you can find a previous version completely free. jaclaz

Different FREE BASICs: http://www.justbasic.com/ http://perso.orange.fr/xblite/ http://www.fbsl.net/ jaclaz

Reference (with examples): http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfor.html jaclaz

...and don't forget good ol' DBAN: Darik's Boot And Nuke: http://dban.sourceforge.net/ jaclaz

Short (and rude) answer: NO.Long (and polite) answer: Yes there are a lot of good and not so good tutorials, unfortunately compiling an app is something really difficult by itself, and doing so with cygwin or MinGW libraries is even more so. To add some complications to it, cdrecord is a VERY complex Source, so that you really should begin with much simpler apps. Just have a look at this (very old) reference to have an idea of the nightmare it sometimes is: http://www.delorie.com/howto/cygwin/mno-cygwin-howto.html I really don't want to put you down, but to be able to successfully compile a source with Cygwin, a tutorial is not really enough you unfortunately need a rather vast knowledge of both the linux and Win32 worlds, besides experience in programming ..... just search on google for "compile cygwin howto" or "compile cygwin tutorial" (without quotes) and you will find lots of tutorials, most aimed to a particular program, but that nonetheless give also "general" instructions. Good luck , I was never able to overcome the steep path to learning how to do that, properly configure the system, have all the dependencies and libraries in the right places, etc., maybe just because I didn't try hard enough, but I know people that do that like drinking a glass of water, I guess that here is a sort of Catch 22 in this matter jaclaz

Pre-compiled last cdrtools Win32 port (Cygwin): http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/t/tplank/ Elder "special" cdrtools Win32 port (MinGW): http://www.bcdwb.de/downloads/cdrtools.htm jaclaz

Should be this one: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=69101 jaclaz

Sorry, I'm not sure I got it. Do you need the pinout for a standard IDE/ATAPI connector? Here it is: http://www.interfacebus.com/Design_Connector_IDE.html http://www.bbdsoft.com/ide.html http://pinouts.ru/DiskCables/IDE_pinout.shtml http://pinouts.ru/HD/AtaInternal_pinout.shtml jaclaz P.S.: Pin may look spade-shaped, but it should be just square (it depends on how you look at it )

Yep, most probably the guys at MS dropped support for .hlp files to reduce size of Vista installation.... jaclaz

Usually? @wild weasel I guess that you are talking about the project LLXX announced here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=74797&st=4 and that is still in the works according to this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...89278&st=10 jaclaz

It looks like some kind of problem related to it being a DYNAMIC disk... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222189/en-us http://www.dbforums.com/t675935.html jaclaz

Actually for such tasks Word can do it: 1) run search and replace with search "<" and replace "^t" (without quotes), this will replace every occurrence of < with a TAB 2) run search and replace with search ">" and replace "" (i.e. have the replace box empty), this will replace every occurence of > with nothing. 3) Select the list and use "Convert text to table" making sure to use TAB as the delimiter. 4) either delete the column before the e-mail addresses and convert the table back to text or select only the column with e-mails and paste it in another document (either Word or, as suggested, Excel) Alternatively, you can save the Word file to "plaintext" with a .csv extension and then use Excel as uid0 suggested. jaclaz

The letter assignment should be due to the type of partition. Please find here some related info: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=23484 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=67395 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=53177 jaclaz

Yes, the same thing can happen with your login password on most system. The point I was trying to make is that there is no actual need to change the default key, and if you go on and change it and your memory is so bad that you cannot remember it, you can stick a Post-it™ near your screen with the "new" key written on it or just try the few keys that can be assigned the function. All in all, I don't see this as a major problem or as a reason to prefer another VM to Virtual PC (size of install, speed and compatibility with different booting methods appear to me as a more accurate comparison area). jaclaz

Yes , though rather faint, you can sometimes hear the screams of the poor cursor, hopelessly trapped inside the VM window..... ....the horror of it all.... ...how cruel were the Connectix/Microsoft guys.... jaclaz

Yes, unless it uses some .DLL functions not present in the Win95 version of * comdlg32.dll * shell32.dll FYI, a section of the forum at bootland is now dedicated to mindows: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/Winimize-f53.html where maybe you can ask for questions not answered here. The developer "winimizer" posts there too, from time to time. jaclaz

Yep, the page has something wrong today, it seems like it reloads continuosly. Direct links (respectively): http://web.tiscali.it/axart/soft/aedit50.zip http://web.tiscali.it/axart/soft/aedit4_full.zip http://web.tiscali.it/axart/soft/aedit4.zip http://web.tiscali.it/axart/soft/zipdlls.zip http://web.tiscali.it/axart/soft/aesc.zip http://web.tiscali.it/axart/soft/aep.zip Features (v5.0 version): http://web.tiscali.it/axart/feaeng_ae.html jaclaz

aedit, rather old but good word processor that reads MS Word files (and saves in .rtf): http://web.tiscali.it/axart/ http://web.tiscali.it/axart/english.html jaclaz